#patriot

American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#american cinema #basis #cinema #express #identity

In 'The King's Speech,' patriotism is utterly contained within a historical moment, the third of September, 1939, where the aggressor is clear, the fight is clear, it hasn't become complicated over time. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#become #clear #complicated #contained #fight

One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#able #attractions #bully #cheat #feeling

I have no sense of patriotism, but I do have a sense of community. ↗

— Chrissie Hynde

#i #i do #patriotism #sense

I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience. ↗

— Shelley Winters

#american #artistic #body #damaging #disgusting

Freedom is more than just a patriotic concept; it is the purest intent of our design. Be you. Be free. Be nice. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#free #freedom #intent #patriotic #design

Well, yeah," Dovey said. "That's America. We watch shows about rich people's houses and their designer dresses and we drool. It's patriotic. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#design

What does seem to me poisonous, what breeds a type of patriotism that is pernicious if it lasts but not likely to last long in an educated adult, is the perfectly serious indoctrination of the young in knowably false or biased history - the heroic legend drably disguised as text-book fact. With this creeps in the tacit assumption that other nations have not equally their heroes; perhaps even the belief - surely it is very bad biology - that we can literally 'inherit' tradition. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#heroes #patriotism #tradition #truth #education

I haven't come to you only to take , I haven't come to you empty handed : I bring you poetry as great as yours but in anther tongue , I bring you black eyes and golden skin and curly hair , I bring you Islam and Luxor and Alexandria and Lutes and tambourines and date-palms and silk rugs and sunshine and incense and voluptuous ways ↗

— Ahdaf Soueif

#patriotism #dating

Jealousy clings to love's underside like bats to a bridge. ↗

— Amy Waldman

#family #love #patriotism #family